Re: FOR070.DAT files appearing

In article <M3++I7Xy+tA9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
koehler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob Koehler) writes:
In article <droll5$kav$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ken Fairfield <my.full.name@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

I'm afraid both of you are *WAY* out of date...by almost 15 years.
IMPLICIT NONE has been Standard Fortran since 1993 when the Fortran 90
standard was formally approved. When F90 was approved, it became the
single, official, international Fortran standard.

When Fortran 90 was adopted, it was so different from Fortran 77
that ANSI did something unusual: it kept the Fortran 77 standard
as is, as an existing standard, and adopted Fortran 90 as a new
standard. I assume Fortran 95 replaced Fortran 90.

I don't know what ISO did with Fortran 77, but as far as ANSI is
concerened there is not one single, official, American standard.

And some of us really don't much care what ISO does!! Driven mostly
by international politics it is a safe bet that ISO will choose whatever
is most likely to annoy the US.

bill


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